263 Do-It-Yourself Fundraising Ideas

Our do-it-yourself fundraising ideas come in a variety of sizes and shapes. Some contain detailed instructions while others are just brief summaries of past fundraising activities of other organizations. Hopefully you can adapt some of them to have some fun and raise funds for your group. We often include similar information from multiple sources to reflect possible variations. You will definitely find some repeats but … just maybe … that’s because they have proven to be successful! Some of the DIY fundraising ideas will work for your group. Some obviously will not. But make sure you review the entire list because there are some real gems from the top to the bottom of the page! If you have some fundraising ideas that you are willing to make available to other groups, send them to us via email and we will try to include them in this section (with credit to you of course). Try to provide as much information as possible. Include anything and everything you would want to know if you were hearing the idea for the first time.

Notice: Many of the do-it-yourself fundraising ideas included in this section were provided by individual fundraisers from around the world such as yourself, while others were gleaned from a variety of other Internet sites and news articles. We try to provide appropriate credit to the sources but we sometimes find some good fundraising ideas in bulletin board messages that do not fully identify the author so we go with what we have. If you find that a narrative originated from you and credit is not adequately shown, please send us an email. We will include credit to you/your site or remove the narrative immediately – depending on your preference.